THE INNER VOICE OF LOVE. A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

Doubleday 1996. 118 sid. Förlagsband. skyddsomslag. Fint skick men gul överstreckspenna har använts här och var.
This is Henri Nouwen´s "secret journal". It is written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote each day a spiritual imperative to himself, which emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters. For more than eight years, Henri Nouwen felt that he what wrote was too raw and private to share with others. Instead he published "The Return of the Prodigal Son", in which he expressed some of the insights gained during his mental and spirtual crisis. But then friends asked him, "Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Woldn´t it be of consolation for many to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath many of your spiritual insights?" For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships, or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, even new life.
Henri J M Nouwen was a Catholic priest who taught at several theological institutes and universities in his home country of the Netherlands and in the United States. He shared the final years of his live with people with mental disabilities at the L´Arche-Daybreak Community in Toronto, Canada.